“As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.”

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.”

“Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.”

“He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.”

“He who is contented is rich.”

“The way to do is to be.”

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”

“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the pl...”

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of ...”

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere...”